Papyrus 51

New Testament manuscripts
Papyri • Uncials • Minuscules • Lectionaries

Papyrus 51 ${\displaystyle {\mathfrak {P}}}$
Surname	P. Oxy. XVIII 2157
text	Galatians 1 †
language	Greek
date	3rd or 4th century
Found	Egypt
Storage location	Ashmolean Museum
source	E. Lobel, CH Roberts, EP Wegener, Oxyrhynchus Papyri XVIII (London: 1941), pp. 1-3.
Type	Alexandrian text type
category	II

Papyrus 51 (named after Gregory-Aland with Sigel ⁵¹ ) is an early Greek copy of the New Testament . This papyrus manuscript of the letter to Galatians and only contains verses 1, 2-10.13.16-20 Using paleography , it was dated to the 3rd or 4th century. ${\displaystyle {\mathfrak {P}}}$

The Greek text of the Codex represents the Alexandrian text type (or rather proto-Alexandrian). Kurt Aland placed him in Category II .

The manuscript is currently in the Ashmolean Museum (P. Oxy 2157) in Oxford .

See also

• List of New Testament papyri

literature

• Kurt Aland : Concise List of the Greek Manuscripts of the New Testament - in connection with Michael Welte, edited. by Kurt Aland. de Gruyter, Berlin / New York 1994, 2nd revised and supplemented edition, ISBN 3-11-011986-2 , (Work on New Testament Text Research Vol. 1).
• Edgar Lobel , Colin H. Roberts, and EP Wegener, Oxyrhynchus Papyri XVIII (London: 1941), pp. 1-3.

Web links

• Robert B. Waltz. 'NT Manuscripts: Papyri, ^51. ' ${\displaystyle {\mathfrak {P}}}$
• Oxyrhynchus 2157
• Image from ⁵¹ recto ${\displaystyle {\mathfrak {P}}}$
• Image from ⁵¹ verso ${\displaystyle {\mathfrak {P}}}$

Remarks

1. ↑ ^{a b c} Kurt and Barbara Aland : The text of the New Testament. Introduction to the scientific editions as well as the theory and practice of modern textual criticism . German Bible Society , Stuttgart 1989, ISBN 3-438-06011-6 , p. 109.